CVE-2017-9445: systemd Hit By New Security Vulnerability

[pal666]

users should demand that more things get written in Rust.

stupid users are free to write their software in any language they want

I don't want my computer to crash or leak sensitive data just because some programmer can't bother to learn a new language or want to express their "art" in a specific way.

nobody will work for you for free just because you've read some shit on internets

[pal666]

Too bad the mainstream programmers disagree with decades of language research.

too bad lunatic researchers still think that programs will write themselves

[boxie]

Technically, they should have worked with one of the existing FOSS groups that know how to do DNS and how to do it well.

and by worked with, i mean, just use their code

[pal666]

So? Reducing the attack marginally is still better than current.

so why do you post shit on forums instead of "reducing attack" ? posting shit on forums is surely worse than current

[pal666]

Technically, they should have worked with one of the existing FOSS groups that know how to do DNS and how to do it well.

and by worked with, i mean, just use their code

ok, now you have to name a group which has foss dns without vulnerabilities with features of systemd-resolved, imbecile

[pal666]

Can we use systemd without resolved? Or is there any software depending on it?

you can if you don't need working resolver. but it would be stupid, because 1) that bug is fixed already and 2) all resolvers had bugs

[caligula]

too bad lunatic researchers still think that programs will write themselves

Is that really valid criticism to ALL the languages invented since 1970s? Multibillion industries use other, more modern languages.

[pal666]

Is that really valid criticism to ALL the languages invented since 1970s? Multibillion industries use other, more modern languages.

to all languages without thoughts on backwards compatibility. all "modern" widely uses languages had some huge corporation to push it. and btw there exists modern version of c, it is called c++17

[caligula]

to all languages without thoughts on backwards compatibility. all "modern" widely uses languages had some huge corporation to push it. and btw there exists modern version of c, it is called c++17

Perhaps, but it is still not as widely used. It seems the matter of bounds checking is still problematic in C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_(C...ion)#Criticism

[pal666]

Perhaps, but it is still not as widely used.

not as widely as rust?

It seems the matter of bounds checking is still problematic in C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_(C...ion)#Criticism

use c++ and avoid raw pointer arithmetic - problem solved